The Sun. — London, England, 1836-06-17 00:00:00

Noble Duke. 'They must also remember that by these Bills they 'wre throwing an insurmountable barrier across the countt..t , 'llrou g h which the railroads passed ; and wile !her the cmunty was an agricultural or manufacturing county •svould. 'suffer the greatest - detriment, because they might j'ast as well throw the Alps across the country—(A laugh) —as - these railroads, unless they permitted bridges to be erected over, or tunnels under, the roads, which could not nt - w : be done without the authority of a particular private 4:A.ct of Parliament. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE should not with. draw his opposition to the proposition of the Noble Duke. He considered railroads as a great improvement to the country, and thought that it would be highly inexpedient, to impose any fresh regulations, and throw any fresh difficulties in their way. The House then divided, whet ? ' there appeared, For the clause Against it Majority -18 The Bill was then read a third time and passed. The Judicial Ratification (Scotland) Bill and the Bas tards' Wills (Scotland) Bill severally passed through Com mittee, and were reported. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT AMEND MENT BILL. Tlv j Earl of SHAFTESBURY reported this Bill ; and verb il amendments on the motion of the Duke of Cleve lan.:t and the Earl of Radnor were agreed to. The third reading was fixed for to-morrow (this day.) THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY BILL. The Earl of RADNOR moved the third reading of this Bill. The Earl of WINCHILSEA opposed the measure. The Earl of ltA DNOR supported the Bill, which was then read a third time and passed. Their Lordships then adjourned. BANKING AFF Great interest seems to be rai-_,,ra in the city by the discus sions on American affairs,.bv: many affect to d ou bt w h et h er trading and banking have 'seen carried to the ext en t d escr ib e d , and ask for further evidence on the subject. We cannot in such a case refer to better authority than the speech of Mr. Cambreleng, of New York, who, in a speech delivered in the House of Repres':;ntatives on the 27th of April, in a Commit tee of the on the state of the Union, entered very largely into these matters. He dates the beginning of this expansion from about 1830. Mr. Cambreleng says— " Thr.: exports of domestic produce, the permanent regula tor of -our revenue from customs, and generally of the receipts from public lands, amounted in 1828 to 50,000,000 dollars ; they increased, and in 1835 reached 98,500,000 dollars. For Ifive years the increase was steady, rising in that term from .50,000,000 dollars to 70,000,000 dollars in 1833; but be tween 1833 and 1835 they suddenly rose to 98,500,000 dollars —in other words, at the rate of 5,000,000 dollars annually in the first four years ; 11,000,000 dollars in 1834, and 17,500,000 in 1835. Your importations for consumption, I mean after deducting the amount exported, were, in 1830, at 49,000,000 d'Alars. It is proper to state that Ido not refer to the 'statements reported from the Treasury, as they include specie among the merchandize consumed in the Lry, which I have excluded in my calcula tions. the amount of merchandise imported for consump tion rrise from 49,000,000 dollars in 1830 (10,000,000 dollars beirJw the export of domestic produce in that year) to 87 ,000,000 dollars in 1834, and in 1835 suddenly to 122,000,000 ''collars, being 23,500,000 dollars beyond the exports of do mestic produce. The revenue of the first quarter of 1835 was not very large, but judging from the importations in the remainder of the year, and the extraordinary revenue at the port of New York for the first quarter of the present year, there can be no doubt of an importation for consumption in the year ending the Ist of April of from 35,000,000 to 50,000,000 dollars beyond the exports of domestic produce. The receipts from public lands were, in 1828, about 1,000,000 dollars ; they rose gradually from 4,850,000 in 1834, and then suddenly to 14,750,000 in 1835. " Such, Sir ' are the evidences of s u dd en an d extraordinary overtrading. These seasons of speculation are incidental to our rapidly growing country, and withw a t any other cause, after 20 years of peace, it was natural tr., expect that, enjoying as we do, unparalleled prosperity, arid outstripping all other na tions in the growth of wealth and population, we should be, as we now are, hurried on by a wild and uncalculating spirit of speculation. But other camies have accelerated speculation, and a sudden expansion of credit, within the last two years. The severe lessons v;e., received between 1818 and 1820, from overbanking and .overtrading, arrested for a time the increase or, banking capital ; and, in the ten years from FAO to 1830, the increase was only about 15,000,000 dollars, while from 1830 to the present time it has been su'V..enly augmented more than 100,000,000 dollars. 0 win% 'to this cause, and the solid prosperity of the country, there was a strong tendency to overtrading, when the Bank of the United States commenced curtailing in 1833, and in 19 rasanths reduced its loans and exchanges nearly 19,000,000 of elollars, in November, 1834. This reduction had its effect -upon the banks and trade of the country. But the moment the Bank changed its policy, and united with other banks, and with trade, in expanding business and credit, the spirit of spe culation suddenly spread throughout the Union. Between November, 1834, and July, 1835, the Bank increased its is sues between 9,000,000 and 10,000 000 dollars, and its loans and exchanges about 19,500,000 dollars. This affords some idea of the vast and sudden expansion of the business of all tbe banks in the Union, and of the increase of that immense mass of private credit, which it is impossible to measure. One other cause, and a powerful one it is, has added to this spirit of speculation, and is sufficient to explain the mystery about exchange. Our act altering the relative value of gold and silver made the fernier, the chief currency of Europe, more valuable here thaui it is there—we suddenly became purchasers after being so - many years vendors of gold, and the effect of that act was to substitute gold in the place of silver, as our currency." Fronk such statements, and they arc not, that we are aware, capable of contradiction, it is impossible to come to any other conclusion than that the whole of th',: trading and monetary interest of the Union are in an artificial and highly excited state, which requires to be made known and carefully watched in this country. It is not meant to affirm that any very ex tensive mischief must follzw to this country from this state of things. The very utility of our drawing attention to them con sists in this—that it ;nay possibly, by exciting similar caution on the other side., avert altogether the otherwise inevitable consequences. Mr. Cambreleng, in his speech, goes on to draw a parallel between the state of the Union from 1816 to 1818, which preceded the great crisis of 1819, and to antici patt.: similar consequences now : he remarks— " But, whatever may have been the causes of the present condition of the country, it is an unnatural one. Prices cannot continue to rise—the tide of trade and revenue cannot roll on for ever. The moment it reaches its utmost point of eleva tion, the returning ebb will be felt in every quarter of this Union ; and we shall feel it, sensibly feel it, in every branch of our revenue. We have been for 18 months past as we were from 1816 to 1818. We had a revenue from customs in 1816, of 36,000,000 dollars, which fell to 13,000,000 dollars in 1821. Our imports were, according to the Treasury statements, 133,000,000 dollars in 1816, and but 41,000,000 dollars in 1821. Our sales of public lands were in 1815, 2,300,000 dollars. They rose to 7,200,000 dollars in 1818, then rose suddenly to 17,700,000 dollars in 1819, and as suddenly fell in 1820 to 1,900,000 dollars. Such, Sir, has been our experience ; and yet we are told we are to have no diminution. 'Your importations may go on at the rate of 150,000,000 dollars to 200,000,000 dollars annually, but the higher they reach, the more terrible will be the revulsion. If between 1816 and 1821 they fell from 133,000,000 dol lars to 41 .,000,000 dollars, where is the reduction to stop when th e ebb follows our present flood? Will it stop at 100,00 0,000 more than double the amount in 1830, or will it stc p at 75,000,000 dollars, far beyond the usual amount imp orted for consumption in former years ? " The facts in this speech, it should be remarked, were ad duced to show the impolicy of distributing the surplus re venue of the country amon the several states, on account of the reaction that must necessarily follow them, and bring back the income to its former level, but they are equally applicable, and of still greater importance, to the state of the trading and banking interest. BANKS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Dollars. Bank of New York Manhattan Company Merchant's Bank Mechanics' Bank Union Bank Bank of America City Bank Phoenix Rank North River Bank Tradesmen's Bank New York Chymical Manufacturing Co 'Fulton Bank . 600,000 Delaware and. Hudson Canal Company ... .•..•. 1,300,000 Merchants' Exchange Bank 750,000 National Bank . 750,000 Illecl:anies' and Traders' Bank Butchers' and Drovers' Greenwich Bank Leather Manufacturers' Bank Seventh Ward Bank Lafayette Bank Commercial Bank 500,000 Dry Dock Company, banking capital Total .............................. 19,461,20° ---Nrorning Paper. We understand that Lord Cranstoun, on being in formed o f th e scarc ity which prevails this season among - the poor on his estate of Arisaig, in this county, in common, we regret to say, with many other parts of the western coast and isles, immediately directed his factor to distribut e 201. in the mean time, in the best way calculated to alleviate the imme diate wants of the poor on his estate. His Lordship has also directed the munificent sum of 100/. to be expended to en- Courage Courage the peopl e on hi s estate to establish fishings on coast ; and we understand that Mr. Fraser of Lovat, and Mr. Nl`Donald of Lochsheal, having each contributed a similar sum. Arrangements are in course of being carried into execu tion for establishing herring fishing, and also cod and ling fishing, on the coasts of Arisaig, Morar, and Moydart. Those measures, together with the manufacture of kelp, which in ?erne instances has been resorted to, not with the view to profit, but to assist in employing the people, will, we trust, be some alleviation to the distress which prevails in those parts.—ln berness Courier. LITERATURE. MOUNTAIN DECAMERON-3 VoLs. Bentley . London, 1836. The author of these volumes, a gentleman by name Downes, has, in treating of Welch scenery, manners, customs, legends, tk . .e6, broken neatly, if not quite, un ttollen ground. nefice his " INiotintain Decameron" is full of life and no'reity i mid will come on the experi enced tYcQhrettder quite like a surprise. The stirring legends, and stern, domestic tragedies of homely Welch life, which form the staple of his volumes, would seem to have been penned on the spot, while the feelings which they called forth were yet fresh in the author's mind—so vivid are the colourings in which he has pourtrayed them, and so impassioned and truth-like their character. Another recommenda tron of the "Decameron” is its utter absence of anything like literary tact or mechanism. Mr. Downes has nothing of the practised book-maker about him ; he does not wire-draw his incidents ; or indulge in melo dramatic surprises ; but trusts to nature for effect, who—as she always does to those who place a lively faith in her impulses—carries him handsomely through. Our impressio❑ on reading these volumes, is that the author is a man of a vigorous and imaginative turn of mind,who thinks for himself, and writes from the prompt ings of his own heart. But though he possesses much of the poetical temperament, yet strange to say, he makes sad work with his poetry, mistaking mysticism for sublimity, quaintness for fancy, and affectation for feeling. Out of some ten or a dozen poems which are scattered throughout the " Decameron," we have been able only to discover four good lines, which occur in some stanzas on the Ocean. In justice to Mr. Downes we subjoin them : " What knells for broken hearts these waves have tolled ! Eternal partings sob in this low roar ! Some hope of hearts which but that one consoled, Thy every night.storm blasts on every shore !" The lines marked in italics appear to us eminently beautiful. But if our author's poetry be indifferent, his prose is quite the reverse. It is bold, rough, and racy, and remarkable for the felicity of its epithets and metaphors. Thus, speaking of a wife who was constantly miserable because her bed was barren, Mr. Downes says of her, that she fancied her husband's eye " turned coldly on her, and her unoccupied bosom." A young, enthusiastic scholar in love with an artless Welch girl of good family is described as " feeding in solitude on the white beauty of her idea ;" and a sea storm is thus graphically painted :—" The echoes of the tremendous falls of the broad sea's sweep, lashing the rock beach on the seaward side of the Great Orme, were like thunderclaps run into one another ; and the real thunder of the sky, shut up by clouds as by mighty folding doors hung with mourning, already came groan ing from the distance." In sketching scenery, our author evidently takes Crabbe for his model ; as the following extract which has all his force and literalness will show : "On each side, a marbled expanse of the finest sand stretches away yellowing in the gold light of a summer morn ing. No horrid depth of black mud (half smothering you in imagination with its mere look) here scowls on the retrocession of the sea. As we stand on the edge of the sea-river, a crowd of mountain tops is in lofty distance before us, rolled up yet in a night of their own, but grimly yielding to the broad morning laugh of the whole sea firmament, of June blue. Close beside us, all is home-felt beauty. The little ferry-house, the patter. ing of a sea at play with real green banks ; all that a quiet eye can desire, to transmit a sympathetic quietude to the heart, in the way of scenery, is here. Meadows, a little marsh ground, wild wood, and green sward heights, lowing cows, bleating lambs, singing bare-foot girls among them all, and that smiling, heaving, half sea, half river, are all that meet eye or ear." The introduction of the " singing, barefoot girls" greatly assists the life and animation of this glowing landscape. But Mr. Downes has loftier qualities than those of a picturesque landscape painter. He is a man of deep and, at times, even original powers of thought, to which he gives fit utterance in eloquent and impas sioned language. The subjoined apostrophe is put into the mouth of a philosophical Recluse, grey in years and disappointed in hopes, who is musing at night by a sea-coast abounding in ruins : " If man be a worm, a grain of these sands, a nothing in the universe, man's woes also are nothing. Does my heart bleed or quake for the coming ills of my country ? I know, I see, where will be its place presently in this dumb, eternal revolution of the kingdoms of the creation—with Balbec in the desert ? Is my blood boiling with some wrong inflicted on me by my brother worm ? I come to this eloquent wilderness of waves as to a solemn wood for meditation, and it tells me that I have only tofold my arms, smile at the injurious wretch, and wait; for he is already dying Time is bringing up my enemy to judgment. Mortality has already on his ghastly head the sable coif, the token of his death-doom being about to be read, and while I cry Revenge,' behold, I am crying against ashes—a shadow—a nothing ! Why should I gnaw my own heart because I do not obtain the distinction which I fancy due to my gifts among men ? I think what man is ; I handle a dead bone, firm and unperished yet, and learn that even these brittle cancelli of its marrow-cells, have survived all the generations of mankind not born ; that the primeval giant-beast its owner, was in his living strength, while man was yet in Lis clod ; was breathing before that clay was breathed into by the spirit of his Maker ; ere it caught the fearful privilege to he ; and started up—it heart I—a hand !—a tongue I—a brain !—to throb, to agonize ; to work good or evil ; to pour a burning eloquence ; to think through all God's universe, and almost to pry around his throne. And then, ah then ! and soon, through clammy sweats and agony, to return whence it started ; to be mastered by a vile worm ; to lie mute as this half-animated polypus at my feet ; to swell the festering masses that crowd this grave I stand on." This i. 3 finely felt and finely expressed, though we fear the thought is of too elevated and abstract a character to please the watering-place readers of fiction. It is simply calculated to perplex them. Far more intelli gible to such readers, and equally beautiful in expres sions, are these reflections, which proceed from the same thoughtful Recluse, of whom we have just made mention. He is describing the duties which he owes to himself in the grey evening of his existence : "My brother-men, good night. With you, and for you, I have lived, but now the evening of my life is stealing on me, with its cool, its damp, its shadows; I would fain now live a little to myself, awhile to nature, as, perhaps, soon to live to God, and in his presence. It is better to be prepared; to listen for the calling voice in the stillness of woods, than to be astonished with it, as by a thunder-clap, in the forgetful revels of cities. As on this Ystwith side, in this sweet valley, I ob serve preparations for the night ; the sounds of the day grow ing few, those fen', faint and drowsy; the harmless man just finished folding hi• sheep, and no more to do ere he lie down, than look awhile at that beautiful sky, and listen the first owl's voice ; his wife heard in -doors, singing their child to sleep, where father, mother, and child will be presently sleeping to gether, under that wild flowered roof—so let MC too look in doors. It is time to compose my agitated bosom after the stir of life's day, to let contentious thoughts cease, and all fierce wishes be lullabied to quiet, to deep sleep. Oh, it is well—it is needful, this gentle, melancholy twilight to man's life! This breathing, resting !space between two worlds—this soft break of the transition front the world of sun to the world of night—the grave." There are numerous other passages in the " De cameron" nearly, if not quite, equal to those we have quoted above—passages which show a deep insight into the workings of the human heart ; which abound in pure, healthy sensibility ; and convince us that the author is one who, even in his most abstract specula tions, turns a trembling, ever watchful ear to " the still, sad music of humanity." As regards th e ta l es, they are, for the most part, of a stern, tragic cast, and occasionally repulsive in their incidents, like the fictions of Banim—and for this reason, that Mr. Downes, like the Irish novelist, does not draw on hi s own invention, but from the domestic annals of a semi-barbarous peasantry ; for such, in truth, were the Welch Indigetes up to the close of the last century. The best tale in the " Decameron" is, " The Tragical History of Marmaduke Paull," which is throughou t worked up with uncommon power. The description of the lone, impassioned lover's feelings, when he dis covers that he has formed an attachment to his own daughter ; of the fearful struggle in his mind when he makes the strange discovery ; of his re solution to commit suicide ; and of the mode in which he sets about it —namely, by waiting the approach of a raging sea, into .a cavern half-way up the lofty Llandudno rocks ;—these Portions of the romance, THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1836. which has the rare merit of being founded on fact, me unequalled by anything of the sort in the present day. Nor must we omit to notice the striking incident of the old Clergy:nan, who, when informed by the peasants who are grouped around him on the summit of tht rock, that all human hope is vain, reads the burial service over the body of him who is at that moment breathing his last in the inundated cavern below. We have already observed that Mr. Downes is a superior landscape painter ; but his sketches have this addi tional recommendation, that they are remarkable for their strict accuracy, as in more than one instance, wc ourselves can testify. His allusions too, are rigidly' lo.m1; and he hits off the Welch peasant, and small farmer, as none can do but he who is thoroughly conver sant with their peculiarities. The great defect in his " Decameron" is, that the tales are most clumsily and inartificially introduced ; and that there are too fre quent attempts at humour in the prefatory part. THE NAKED TRUTH. London : Cowie and Co., 1836. The title page of this little work reminds us of the good old times when authors, in telling us the name it delighted them to give their literary offspring, told us as much about the amusement or information we might expect from the perusal thereof, as their successors of modern times are enabled to do in a preface of some ten or twenty pages, eked out by a sprawling introduc- tion extending over a couple of sheets. Does the reader stare—seeing that we only prefix " The Naked Truth" to this notice ? We seek not to puzzle him. The book has an alias if the above title be deemed objectionable—an alias too, which, with its accompani ments, we need only give to prove that our author is a match for old Rhymer himself in the art of writing title-pages. This work then is described as " The Naked Truth, or One Day's Advice to Landlords, Tenants, and Operatives, and to all who think. Being an impartial and unbiased exposition of those causes which have produced the present state of our agricul tural and general interests, our heavy poors'-rates, and that spirit of disunion in society which is by too many symptoms manifested. Showing also, the urgent neces sity of applying the only practical remedies." Then follows a quotation from Tacitus, to show how very happy the author is in the privilege of thinking what he pleases, and of talking what he thinks ; though it by no means follows that such a privi lege is in every instance of much advantage to the community. Nor is the work unworthy of the title page ; for, although the monitory portion of it may be perused very carefully in half a day, and, therefore, so far the book is most properly designated " One Day's Advice," we confess there are portions of it which some wise heads would not fully comprehend in a year, and which wiser still may pronounce incomprehensible. Of course, it would be unfair to blame an author for the ignorance or stupidity of his readers ; and we merely state the fact with a view to remind the " read ing public" that here the person who reads to under stand is not to think of running at the same time. The author sets out with assuring us that he is neither a theorist nor a party-man; and to prove the former, he lays down twenty-one propositions, which form, or should form, the basis of all social, moral, and political government ! Each of these propositions is a sort of Procrustes bed, by which he regulates and measures all that contributes to human happiness as he proceeds. But enough of Truth in a state of nudity. We pre sume the author is some very amiable and philanthro pic enthusiast—harmless at all times, and, if possible, still more so when concocting systems for the welfare of mankind. The DECLINE OF TORYISM INDICATED BY THE NEWSPAPER RETURNS. ( From the Spectator.) The state of the Newspaper circulation—the rise or fall in the sale of journals of opposite politics—is supposed, and with reason, to be an index of the state of public feeling. Thv last return of the Stamps issued to the London Press was ap pealed to by both parties as proof of the popularity of their politics. With the aid of the renegade Times, the Tories were enabled to exhibit the largest sale of Daily papers for the half-year, ending June 30th, 1835, to which date the re turns extended. But it was proved on the other side, that this was a decreasing majority, whilst the Reforming papers were extending their circulation. It also appeared that the Reforming Weekly journals had a very large majority over t'iose which advocated Tory opinions. Another return has just appeared, which supplies the number of Stamps issued month by month to the London and Country Newspapers from the 30th of June to the 30th of April last inclusive. This document enables us to compare the sales of 1835 with those of 1834, besides furnishing four months' data for estimating the numbers which may be disposed of in 1836. We suspect that the results will not be very satisfactory to those who boast of the re-action in favour of Toryism during the last sixteen months. We find that the sale of The Times and Evening Mail, in 1834, was In 1835, Decrease 720,505 Morning Herald and English Chronicle, in 1834 2,612,007 In 1 835 2,249,005 Decrease 363,002 Morning Post in 1834 In 1835 Decrease Decrease in the Times Morning Herald Morning Post . 39,000 Total Decrease ... 1,122,507 The Albion and Star (now discontinued) sold in 1834 In 1835 Increase ..... 60,000 The Standard, St. James's Chronicle, and two other papers, in 1834 were In 1835 1,689,500 Increase Decrease on Tory papers 1,122,507 Increase on Tory papers 292,132 Net Decrease 830,375 So the Tory Daily Press is decidedly on the decline, in the comparison of 1834 with 1835. But it may be said that these journals are regaining their lost ground, in consequence of the public indignation against O'Connell and the popular furore in favour of the assailed Church of Ireland. Let us see how far this notion is borne out by the returns for the first four mcnths of the present year ; remembering that the sale of Daily newspapers is fully as great during that period (Parliament being sitting) as in any other section of the year. The number of stamps issued to the Times, in Ja nuary, February, March, and April, was ...... Multiply this number by 3, in order to get at the year's consumption of stamps, supposing that the first four months afford a fair average ; aid we have 2,s29,ooo—instead of 2,644,994, the sale of last year—or a diminution of The sale of the Morning Herald during the first four months, was 697,000 ; which, multiplied by 3, gives 2,091,000, or a diminution of The sale of the Morning Post during the same period, was 223,000; which, multiplied by 3, gives 669,000, or a diminution of 843,000 115,994 158,000 Estimated decrease on Times, Herald, and Post, in 1836 The Standard again comes in to the relief of the Tory journals; but this time is not of much service. In 1835, the sale of the Standard was 1,689,500 ; in the first four months of 1836, 578,000 ; which multiplied by 3, gives 1,734,000 or a trifling increase of 19,000 292,994 44,500 248,494 So that supposing the sale for the whole year to be fairly calculated on that of the four first months, the Tory journals will present a further decline in 1836, as compared with 1835, of 248,494. Now let us turn to the other side, and mark the progress or decline of the Liberal newspapers. The sale of the Morning Chronicle for the first half-year of 1834, is not distinguished from that of the Observer, and other journals published at the same office ; but in the last half-year of 1834, it was 324,500 ; if we double this num ber for the whole year, we shall get for the sale of the Morning Chronicle, in 1834 In 1835, the sale of the Chronicle was Increase The Morning Advertiser, in 1834 In 1835 Increase The Sun, l i n n 11883354 580,000 768,800 Increase ncrease on the Chronicle 1,309,000 Advertiser Sun 188,800 Total increase on the Liberal papers in 1835 over 834 1,654,000 There has been a decline on the Globe of . Courier . True Sun.. 100,500 97,500 179,000 Total Increase Total Decrease 377,000 Net Increase 1,654,000 377,000 1,277,000 It thus appears, that while 830,000 fewer Tory daily papers have been sold, in 1835 than in 1834, the number of Liberal papers has been augmented 1,277,000—m0re than a million and a quarter ; and this in spite of the ratting of the mighty Times to the opposite side. Calculating the sale for the year 1836 on the data furnished by the first four months, the result is not so favourable to the Liberal journals : There would be a gain on the Morning Chronicle of 40,000 Morning Advertiser 90,000 • 130,000 But on the Evening papers there would be a loss of 168,000 Leaving a balance of loss But here again, we must remember, that in this view of the matter, the Tory loss would be no less than From which deduct the Liberal loss 248,494 38,000 And their still remains an Anti-Tory balance of ... 210,494 So much for the Daily. There is nothing very striking one way or the other as regards the Weekly newspapers ; but the advantage is on the Liberal side. In 1834. In 1835. stamps issued to the Age were 585,750 ... 510,500 Bell's Weekly Messenger . 612,000 ... 636,000 John Bull Old England Record 1,832,382 1,838,090 1,832,382 Tory gain in 1835.. 5,708 Atlas Bell's New Weekly Messenger 257,975 ... 273,000 Christian Advocate 77,914 ... 89,300 County Chronicle Examiner News Patriot Sunday Times Spectator* Satirist Weekly Dispatch 3,210,944 ... 3,348,300 3,210,944 Liberal gain on the Weekly Press 137 , 356 Deduct Tory gain 5,708 Net Liberal gain The Observer is not put down in the above list, because in the first half of 1834 the stamps used by that paper were mixed up with those put down to the Chronicle. There is yet another mode of looking at this account. By reference to the foregoing statements it will be seen, that the number of stamps issued to the Tory Daily Press in 1836, Was 7,331,4 99 Add Public Ledger, which was only commenced in 1835 Tory Weekly Press . 134,500 1,838,090 9,304,089 * Our readers will perhaps be well pleased to see that the increase in the Spectator's circulation exceeds that of any other a per in this list wept the Dispatch. ;, Liberal Morning Papers Liberal Evening__ Globe 915,000 Sun 768,800 Courier True Sun 2..557,300 5,835,300 Literal Weekly Press, at by the fore• going statement , 4,4 3,348,300 Add Observer and Bell's Life in Low. don, omitted in the previous estimate because the sale of 1834, was mixed with that of the Chronicle 10,107,225 Surplus of the Liberal Press of London ... 803,136 It should also b e ment i oned as a set-off aga i nst t h e ma j or i ty of daily papers sold by the Tories, that each subscriber takes six copies; which would reduce the number of primary readers to 1,244,333 ; but this rule does not of course apply to the weekly papers, in which the Liberals have a majority of 4,271,925 to 1,838,090. The secondary circulation of a weekly paper is at least equal to that of a daily paper, and we suspect greater. Thus, in whatever way we look at this newspaper muster, the result is unfavourable to the assertion that Tory prin ciples are becoming more popular; the reverse appears, from the sale of the metropolitan journals. We may perhaps take an opportunity o f ana l yz i ng t h e account o f th e provincial newspaper circulation : but in the meanwhile we must remark, that perfect accuracy will not be attainable in that account, !my more than in th e one w hi c h we h ave b een j us t examining ; in consequence of the practice of charging stamps used for different papers at the same office under ono head,* but more especially in consequence of the frauds practised by cer tain London newspaper proprietors, who, in order to make a great display of the extent of,dpir circulation at the head of their jour na l s , p urc h ase stamps for country papers, and add the stamps so procured to those which they actually consume. The country returns prove this very distinctly. For instance —the Liverpool Mercury, an old established paper of large circulation, appears to have an extremely limited sale. What London newspaper proprietor or agent takes out stamps for the Liverpool Mercury? There is only one mode of pre venting such frauds as these—the mode advocated by the Morning Chronicle: let each paper have its " name" on the stamps which are purchased for it : only cheats can object to this regulation. * For instance, who can tell the real circulation of the Standard from the returns ? If the St. James's Chronicle —.a long established paper, and a great favourite in the coun try, especially among the parsons—and which is published three times a week, sells 12,000 weekly, and the . other two papers publish e d a t th e same o ffi ce 3 , 000 wee kly, the num bers affixed to the Standard should be 909,500, instead of 1,689,500. HER MAJESTY'S DRAWING-ROOM The Queen held a Drawing Room yesterday afternoon at St. James's Palace. - The King's Guard, with their band, were on duty in the Colour -court, and a guard of honour of the Life Guards were stationed in the principal court. His Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms were stationed at the doors in the state rooms reserved for the Royal Family, and also in the Portrait Gallery and in the Presence Chamber. The officers of the Yeoman Guard present were—Sir Ed win Pearson, the Lieutenant ; Captain Houlton, the Ensign ; Mr. Charles Hancock, the Exon in Waiting; and Mr. Eller thorpe, Clerk of the Cheque. The Duchess of Kent came in state to the Drawing Room, escorted by a party of Life Guards. Her Royal Highness was attended by Lady Flora Hastings, Sir John Conroy, and the Hon. General Upton. Her Royal Highness entered the Palace by the Colour-court, and was received with the usual honours by the King's Guard. The Landgravine of Hesse Homberg, the Prince of Orange, the Hereditary Prince and Prince Alexander of the Netherlands, the Landgravc of Hesse Homberg, the Duke of Oldenbourg, Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal, and Prince Charles :of Salms Braunfels also arrived, and attended the Drawing Room. Their Majesties having entered the Throne Room, the entree company were first admitted, and afterwards the general company. There were present of the Queen's Household the Duchess Dowager of Leeds, Mistress of the Robes ; the Countess Brownlow, in Waiting ; the Marchioness of Ely, and the Countess of Sheffield, Ladies of the Bedchamber; Miss Mitchell (in Waiting), Miss Eden, Miss Hudson, Miss Bagot, and Miss Hope Johnstone, Maids of Honour; Lady Bedingfield and Mrs. Berkeley Paget, Bedchamber Women ; Earl Howe, Lord Chamberlain ; Earl of Denbigh, Master of the Horse ; Hon. Mr. Ashley, Vice-Chamberlain ; Captain Pechell, R. N., Equerry ; Sir George Hoste, Captain Vin cent, R.N., Hon. J. Strangways, Hon. Captain Curzon, R. N., Mr. Hudson, and Mr. Mellish, Gentlemen Ushers ; and Master de Salis, Page of Honour. The King was attended by the Great Officers of State and the officers of his Household. Lord Lilford was the Lord in Waiting, and Sir Joseph Whatley the Groom in Waiting. At the entree the Princess Galitzin and her sister were pre sented to the Queen by the Countess Brownlow. The Princess de Bretzenheim was presented by the Coun tess Brownlow. Mademoiselle Rapp, (daughter of the General), was pre sented by Countess Sebastiani, the French Ambassadress. The Prince de Bretzenheitn was presented by M. Humme lauer, the Austrian Charge d'Affaires. Count Wedel Jarlsbcrg was presented to the Queen by Count Bjornstjerna, the Swedish Minister. Prince Galitzin was presented by Count Pozzo di Borgo, the Russian Ambassador. Mr. J. W. May, Consul-General of the Netherlands, was presented to the Queen, by M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister. Colonel de Buelberg, Aide-de- Camp of the Emperor of Russia, and M. Maltzoff, Aide-de-Camp of his Serene High ness the Prince of Oldenbourg, were presented by Count Pozzo di Borgo, the Russian Ambassador. Mr. Thomas Newley Reeve was presented on being ap pointed Standard Bearer to the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, by Lord Foley. Mr. Charles Dance was presented to the Queen on his ap pointment as one of his Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, by Lord Foley. Lord Polworth was presented on coming to his title, by the Earl of Denbigh. Sir Arthur Blackwood was presented on his appointment of Groom of the -Privy Chamber to his Majesty. The Drawing-rooth was attended by the Russian Ambas sador, the French Ambassador,. and Countess Sebastiani ; the Neapolitan Minister, and Countess Ludolf ; the Prussian, Sardinian, Swedish, Wurtemberg, Hanoverian, Danish, and Portuguese Ministers; the Grecian Minister and Madame Tricoupi, NOory . Effendi, Ottoman Minister, accompanied by Mr. Salame, his Majesty's Oriental Interpreter; the Ba varian Minister, and Baroness Cetto, the Netherlands Minis ter ; M. de Hummelaur, Austrian, and Mr. Vail, United States Charges d'Affaires; Baron do Maltitz, Councillor to the Hanoverian Legation; Count de Grammont, Secretary to the French Embassy ; Count Plessen, Secretary to the Danish Legation ; Chevalier de Ribciro, Secretary to the Portuguese Legation ; the Chevalier C. de Trenta, Prefet of the Palace and Chamberlain of his Royal Highness the Duke of Lucca, Infant of Spain ; Baron Lebzeltern, Attache to the Embassy of his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty; Baron Von Randen ( Captain in the Netherlands service) ; Baron d' Ompteda, Aide- de- Camp to the Duke of Cambridge; Baron d'Ompteda, of the Jager Guards, and Baroness d'Omp teda (nal de Strabe), the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Groom of the Stole, the Master of the Horse, the Comman der of the Forces, the Captain of the Hon. Corps of Gentle men-at-Arms, the Captain of the Yeoman Guard, Viscount Combermere, Gold Stick in Waiting; the Deputy Great Chamberlain, Sir E. C. Diabrowe, his Majesty's Envoy Ex traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of the Netherlands; the Paymaster of the Forces, the Treasurer of the Household; the Master of the Ceremonies, the Master of the Robes, Rev. Dr. Blomberg, Deputy Clerk of the Closet; Hon. Captain Poulett, Naval Aide-de-Camp; Lord Saltoun and Valletort, Colonel Lord Dufferin, Sir George Seovell, Colonels Sir AdolpTais Dalrymple, Sir C. Thornton, Sir R. H. Dick, and Elphinstone, Aides-de-Camp to the King; Sir Patrick Walker, Usher of the White Rod ; Sir David Wilkie, A., Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King ; the Clerk Marshal, Sir H. Seymour, Colonels Bowater and Cavendish - , Equerries to the King ; Rev. Dr. Kuper, Chaplain to the - Queen ; Lord Kilmarnock, Page of Honour ; Captain Cour tenay Boyle, R.N., Groom of the Privy Chamber ; Lieute nant Colonel Sir Frederick Smith and Captain Green, Gen tlemen Ushers to the King in Waiting; Major Hyde, Assistant Master and Marshal of the Ceremonies ; Lieutenant Colonel Reed, Silver Stick. The following ladies were presented to the Queen : The Countess of Aboyne, on coming to the title, by the Countess of Errol. Lady Beresford, on her marriage, by Viseougtess Beresford. Lady Graves Sawle, by Lady Trelawny. Lady Louisa Forbes, by the Countess of Wemyss. Mrs. Hill, on her marriage, by Lady Vivian. Mrs. Winthorp M. Pitied, by Lady Granville Somerset. Lady Frances Gordon, by the Duchess of Hamilton. Lady Polwarth, on succeeding to her title, by the Countess of Romney. The Hon. Mrs. Milnes, by the Countess of Mexborough. Miss Mathew, by Mrs. George Mathew. Miss Emma Buck, by Mrs. Buck. Lady Anna Maria Courtenay, by Lady E. Courtenay. Lady Louisa Hughian, on her marriage, by Lady Denman. Mrs. Henry Darby Griffith, by her sister, Lady Campbell. Mrs. Hodgson Cadogan, by the Duchess of Northumberland. Mrs. Ross Farquharson, of Invercauld, by the Countess of Wemyss. Mrs. Colonel Rolt, by her sister Mrs. John Round. Mrs. John 141ibbert, by the Countess of Caledon. Mrs. James Mills, on her marriage, by Lady Young. Mrs. R. Harrington, on her marriage, by the Duchess of Hamilton. Miss Brigstock, by her mother Mrs. 13rigstock. Mrs. Fred. Barnsley, by her mother Lady Honeywood. Mrs. Macnamara, by Lady Hamilton. Mrs. Adolphus Shelley, on her marriage, by Lady Shelley. Mrs. Millett, by Lady Mary Long. lion. Mrs. 1 - 1. Arundel', on her marria g e, by Viscountess Ashbrook. Mrs. General Bowes, by Lady Augusta K. Erskine. The Right Hon. Lady John Campbell, by Lady C. Bury. Lady John Scott, by the Duchess of Buceleuch. _ Lady Mary Ch r i s t o ph er , by the Duchess of Buff.leach Lady Rouse Boughton, by Lady St. John. PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY. In the LORDS', last night, further evidence was heard upon the Stafford Disfranchisement Bill. A petition against Church rates was presented. On the motion of the Duke of Richmond, a Select Committee wt s appointed to enquire whether there was any danger from fire to be apprehended in the progress of steam engines on a railroad passing through populous places. Upon the third reading of the London, Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction Railway Bill, the Duke of Wellington carried a clause by 33 to 15 for securing to Parliament the power of revision with respect to railroads. The clause was accordingly added to this Bill, and the Bill then passed. The South Eastern Railway Bill was passed, and their Lordships then adjourned. In the COMMONS, a great many petitions, embracing a great variety of interesting subjects, were presented. Among them from Birmingham, Manchester, and Salford, were petitions against the Factories Regulation Act, and in favour of a ten hours' Bill ; from a place in Surrey against Church -rates ; from Kirkcudbright complaining of the want of lighthouses on the Scotch side of the Solway Frith ; from places in Sussex against certain provisions in the Poor Law Act. Several peti tions were also presented from Mayo for the abolition of tithes. Mayo suffered from famine in 1832, " when they were relieved by the subscriptions of the English people, and that at that period the very rent-drivers of the landed proprietors, the Marquis of Sligo and Sir R. O'Donnell, were supported by the public charity." Notice of the Soap substitution schem e was renewed by Sir C. Knightley, for Monday, when the House goes into Committee on the Stamp Acts. The Regis tration of Voters Bill was re-committed, and after considerable discussion, the clauses up to the 19th were agreed to. Mr. 13rotherton's desire to make the House adjourn punctually at twelve o'clock, led to some lengthened discussion. The House did not adjourn till nearly two o'clock. GERMAN AND BRUSSELS PAPERS. CON STA NTINOPLE, MAT 25. —The differences between Lord Ponsonby and the Porte is still the general subject of conversation. Hitherto the Sultan has refused to give the sa tisfaction required—namely, the dismissal of several officers (even, as is said, the Reis Effendi), and Lord Ponsonby is thereby placed in a false position, so that he refuses to nego elate dirmly with the Porte, and carries on the intercourse, which he still keeps up, through the French Ambassador. This state of things cannot last long, either the Porte must give way, or Lord Pord Ponsonby leave his post here , as he has gone too far, easily to recede. The issue of this business is looked for with apprehension. TRIESTE, JUNE 4. —The political prisoners who are to be sent to America, are still in our neighbourhood, and it is not yet known when they will be embarked for the place of their exile. VIENNA, JUNE 7.—The French Princes amuse themselves very well here, as all circumttances indicate. They have fre quently expressed themselves to this effect, but their uninter rupted cheerfulness makes such a declaration unnecessary. A few days ago, the Duke of Orleans had a conference of an hour and a half with Prince Metternich, in his Cabinet, by which that great statesman is said to have been led to speak to many eminent persons in high terms of the talents and exten sive knowledge of the Duke. The arrival of the King of Naples is announced as likely to take place on the 18th of this month. Row., MAT 31.—1 t is affirmed that through the mediation of an allied court, negotiations are likely to be opened with a view to the recognition of the Government of Portugal. As far as I am informed, the Papal Government will not be disin clined to enter on such a negotiation, if the first overture were to come from Lisbon, and if it were duly considered that the Papal See has recognised Don Miguel as King of Portugal ; and therefore care must be taken to provide for him. VIENNA, JUNE 7.—Five par Cents. 104 ; Four per Cents. 99i ; Three per Cents. 75:1- ; Bank Stock, I,3694..—Allge meine Zeitung, June 12. Baussat.s, JUNE 15.—The average prices of grain, the se cond week of June, from the 6th to the 11th, were 15f. 84c. ; Rye, llf. 09c. per hectolitre, and the import duties 37f. 60c. and 21f. 30c. for 1,000 kilogrammes. BRUSSELS JUNE 15.—.1 letter from Ghent, the 13th inst. says, " Yesterday and the day before, there were several affrays between soldiers, and between soldiers and citizens 'of our city. The arms, which, by a fatal abute, the soldiers are allowed to wear when off duty, have again caused blood to flow. Yesterday, between seven and half-past nine o'clock in the evening, there was a sanguinary conflict between 100 soldiers of the sth Regiment of Chasseurs on foot, and of the 4th regiment of the line. _ _ A letter from Rome of the 30th May says, " It is gene rally affirmed at Rome that the Qldest of the two Princes of Canino has left the Castle of St. Angelo, with a passport for some foreign country, and that his brother has already em barked at Leghorn for America, to which country they were to go, for after the action of which they are accused, their fa ther is not at all inclined to give them a good reception in Eng land. Cardinal Fesch, and the other members of the Empe ror's family here would not interfere in favour of these too guilty relations." BELGIAN FUNDS, BRUSSELS, JUNE 14. Actual Debt, 2 , / ,; per Cent. Itothschild's Loan, 5 peri , Cent. Loan of City, 1832. 4 per Cent 9 ,444 Society of Commerce, 4k.; per Cent 1:3•13A Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 119!4 —Brussels Papers, June 15. This day is the anniversary of a fact most important ill the history cf England, namely, the acquittal of the seven Bishops, in 1688. It is also the annniversary of the opening of the first English navigation canal, in 1761. Lady Cockburn, on Ver return from abroad, by the . Cockburn. Lady Chetwode, by Lady Montfort. Lady de Dalberg Acton, by the Countess of Jersey. Lady Georgiana Bertie, lky the Countess of Jersey. Lady Palmer, on her marriage, by the Dowager Lady De Clifford. Lady Fanny Cole, on he.. marriage, by Lady Churchill. Lady Kinloch, by the Dowager Lady Kinloch. Hon. Miss Dutton, by tier mother, Lady Sherborne. Hon. Miss Flower, by I .ler mother, the Viscountess Ashisrook- Hon. Mrs. Gregory, oh being granted rank and precedence as daughter of a Viscount, by her mother, the Hon. Mrs. Hood. Hon. Lady Deering, 1)3, the Countess of Caledon. Hoff, Mrs. Frederick Angerstein, by Mrs. Angerstein. Mr s , Cforge Lemprire, by Viscountess Beresford. Mrs. J. .M.',Douall, ()Wier marriage, by Lady Walker. Mrs. N. Bland, by the Countess of Wemyss. Hon. Mrs. Carnegie, on her marriage, by Lady M. Long. Mrs. C. Chichester, iq L:idy C. Constable. Mrs. H. Daniell, on her marriage, by Mrs. Col. Daniell. Mrs. Burke, by Lady Sepney. Mrs. Lindesay, on her marriage, by her mother, Mrs. W. Wynn. Miss Cockburn, on her return from abroad, by Lady Cockburn. Miss Eustace, by Lady Eastace. Mrs. Hawkins, on her marriage, by the Marchioness of Ely. Mrs. W. Cayley, on her marriage, by Lady Denman. Miss Burke, by Lady Stepney. Lady F. Bouverie, on receiving rank, by Lady E. Courtenay. Miss Johnson, by Lady A. K. Erskine. Mrs. George Eyreson, on bt r marriage, by her mother, Mrs. Rushbrooke. Mrs. Orby Wombwell, on her marriage, by the Countess of Erroll. • Miss M'Gri gor , by her mother, Laa' s v Grigor. e% Mitford. Miss M. A. E. Thaclseray, by Lucy Cou ntess of Winter t o n . Mrs. Osbaldeston Mitford, by Li.dy G Mrs. Robert Hale, by the Dowag , er Lady Irgiana Do Clifford. Mrs. Rice Clayton, by Lady Duff Arin. Mrs, Edward Fitzgerald, by Lad Paul. Mrs. De Burgh, by the Countess tof Erroll. Mrs. Dallas, by Lady Dufferin. Mrs. Whitgreave, by Lady Salusbuiry Trelawny. Mrs. Patters)r, by Lady Young. 1 Mrs. Spencer Phillips, by Lady Rodney. Mrs. Ackland, by the Countess of Denbigh. Mrs. Randall, by the Hon. Lady Bedingfield. Mri. Willoughby Moore, by the Viscountess Beresford. Mrs. Scudamore, by the Hon. Mrs. 'food. Mrs. Francis Davies, by the Countess of Sheffield. . Mrs. M. St. George, by Mrs. Charles Mrs. George Houlton, by Lady Jane O'Bryen. Mrs. Francis Walpole, by Lady St. John. Miss Dyott, by Lady Parker. Miss Louisa Cole, by Lady Francis Cole. Mis Fitzroy Robertson, by Lady Monfort. Kiss Newman, by Lady John Russell. Miss I::harlotte Parker, by her mother, Lady Parker. Miss Ackland, by the Countess of Denbigh. Miss Milneg, by her mother, the Hon. Mrs. Mines. Miss Temple Bowdoin, by Mrs. W. Clay. Miss Shuttlewo:th, by her m other, Mrs. F. North. Miss Randall, by the Hon. Lady Bedin g field. Miss Cottin, by Lucy Countess of Winterton. Miss B. Reynardson, by , 1 2er mother, Mrs. B. Reynardson. Miss Patterson, by her mother, Mrs. Patterson. Mrs. R. Steuart, by Lady Young. Miss and Miss A. Steuart, by i lirs. Steuart. Miss Hamilton, by Lady Hamilto.'• Mrs. W. Codrington on her marriage, by Lady Codrington. Miss Wombwell, by Lady Errol. Mrs. Colonel Harriot, by Mr. Story. Miss L. Elliott, by Mrs. Elliott. Mrs. Bentham, by Lady R. Boughton. Miss L. Cooper, by Mrs. C. Cooper. Miss C. Smyth, by Lady Smyth. Miss F. Ponsonby, by Lady B. Ponsonby. Miss. F. Rodd, by Lady Rodd. Hon. Lads LADIES' DRESSES. HER MAJESTY. An elegant tulle dress, richly embroidered in silver ; body and sleeves splendidly ornamented with diamonds and blonde ; train of rich silver tissue, with handsome silver border, lined with white satin. Head-dress, feathers and diamonds. (The whole of British manufacture.) H. lt.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT. A beautiful tulle dress, over white satin, magnificently ornamented with diamonds and pearls ; train of rich maize, figured satin, tastefully trimmed with satin and blonde, and lined with white satin. Head-dress , feathe rs and diamonds. (The whole of British manufacture.) PRINCESS BREZENHEIM.—Habit de Cour (Hongrois), com posed of a pink watered silk robe, a queue, richly embroidered in silver lama; apron and epaulettes in tulle, embroidered in silver; body laced with pearls, and trimmed with blonde. head-dress, pink and silver bows, veil and brilliants. DUCHESS OF NORTHUMBERLAND,. --Dress of white tulle, over white satin, richly trimmed with gold fringe and ribbons to c orrespond with train ; train and bodice of wite Irish tabinet, brocaded with gold, lined with white satin, and trimmed with gold fringe ; mantilla and sabots of blonde. Head-dress, blonde lappets, feathers and diamonds. DUCHESS OF HAMILTON.--.A. handsome Brussels lace dress, over a rich gold colour satin slip; corsage and manches a la Maintenon, richly trimmed with Brussels lace and Brussels ruffles ; train of rich white watered Bros de Naples, richly embroidered with gold, and lined with rich white satin. 112nd-dress, handsome white ostrich leathers, Brussels lace lappets ; a diadem and bandeau of .costly diamonds ; ear rings and diamonds derierre. DOWAGER DUCHESS OF LEEDS.—A while satin petticoat, richly embroidered in bouquets of gold ; a robe of embossed green satin, tastefully ornamented with ribbon; body and sleeves richly trimmed with blonde. Head-dress, panache of feathers, blonde barbes, with a profusion of diamonds. MEXICAN FINANCE. The following official communication has been received by the Chairman of the Committee of Mexican Bondholders :-- "DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE OF THE MEXICAN REPUBLIC. " Mexico, April 21. " On this day I communicate to Senor Santa Maria, Minis ter of the Republic to his Britannic Majesty what follows : " Excellent senor—lt being necessary to proceed to the capitalization of the half dividens of the loans contracted in England, left in arrear between the Ist of July, 1831, and the Ist of the current year, 1836, and to issue the supplementary bonds, in conformity with the stipulations in the decree of the 2d of October, 1830, and to fulfil the agreement entered into with the Committee of Bondholders, of which Don M. de Gorostiza communicated to this Government on the 20th of September, and 20th of October, 1831, and also on the 24th of March, 1832, as well as the communication of this Government on the 20th and 21st of January, and 9th of June, of the said year, 1832, the President ad interim, taking into consideration your intelligence, patriotism, and knowledge of circumstances, has selected you to carry into execution the aforesaid operation, in conjunction with the house of Messrs. Baring, Brothers, and Co., in conformity with the decree referred to above. Accordiug to the sti pulations in the afore-mentioned decree, the respective bonds already issued for the capitalization of the dividends which 1831, a r s well as those now O about to be issued, must s t 4, from the Ist of ctober, 1827, to te Ist of 7 e left in arrea April, carry interest. F o r the payment of the above interest, and the dividends of the original debt, in a permanent and stable mariner, at the regulated periods, and for the discharge of the half dividends left unpaid from the year 1832 to the present year, with that punctuality which the honour and good faith of the republic require, for the ot ,.nsolidation and discharge of its foreign debt, the Supreme GovCrnment is occupying itself to appropri ate the means most adap:ed for this object, and has already submitted to the Legislative Power those measures which are, within its attributes, best nalculated to fulfil this interesting engagement. If, until this tine, from unforeseen but notori ous causes, the Government has beenprevented from realising its wishes and the engagements iYith its bondholders, for the punctual payment of the interest of " the debt, to-day the Elate prospects of internal peace and mood order enable it to put into activity all the means of prosperity with which this country abounds, and which its former vascillating situation rendered unavailable.. With this design the President ad interim hones that the zeal of your Excelleocy for the credit and reputation of the republic will tranquillise' all those who may be interested in these transactions, under :he assurance Atisfactory !!‘t, the actual Administration will not omit an y means within :h& reach to regulate them in the most s. manner. "J. DE LA FUENTE, " Under Becretary of the Finance Depaihtent. " Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co., London." - _ A RECoLLECTIONSOFAgn.RTILLERY OFFICER. Though several military ificmoirg have already appeared, none have yet been written by an officer cf artillery. "The forth. coming work by Mr. Benson Hill, vat..°9 "01 include," says the was actively engaged in that corps, Literary Gazette, "some extraordinary during the late war, rodueed to both before and after the field of Waterloo, reland and d 'i m ail . s . curious 6 1 :N ° 8 1 11 ° L n - 1' dotes of the Duke of Wellington, and scenes iti 'I America, in which many celebrated persons are in: the reader." Mr. D. Rutter, of Ihninster, had the extraordinary crop of 50 bushels of oats an acre, without sowing, last year ; the previous year 30 bushels ; and at present he I ;as the pros pect of the finest crop in the county—without any expenditure of seed corn whatever within the two last seasons, .-- Wilts Gazette. THE NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " TOE 'PILOT," &c.—" This book is in the form of letters written in the course of a tour from Paris into Switzerland, and fromk b o o f o k t a h n i thence through the cantons into Upper Italy. The descrip esdtphueblvicoalittilocusi tions of the scenery, relieved by anecdotes and reflections sug. 4,ested by the circumstances of the. journey constitute the IBnrutztetshte amn d ostu n r q e u m e a s r ti k o a n b a l b e ly fe t a h t e ure bes in t p t a h r e t tone which Mr. Cooper occasionally betrays, which es . . hibits such a modification of his former opinions. is that his experience of mankind has enlarged The truth his views of society and government. He is no longer of America. We willingly pass over the fierce defender his po . litics,however t , to come to his pictures of Swiss scenery, which will much be . more agreeable to the general reader. Th e . ground traversed by Mr. Cooper is a succession of splendid views, upon a scale of granduer that surpasses even the forests, mou ntains, and lakes of America. His' sketches have something of the breath and beauty of Stanfield's • • paintings, and are very spirited and, graphic. ".—Atlas, I